Redfield v. Buck
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Ejectment, brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex county, and tried to the jury on the general issue before Phelps, T. On the trial the plaintiff claimed title to the demanded premises by virtue of the levy of an execution issued on a judgment obtained against William J. Buck, the defendant’s brother, in the year 1865, on certain promissory notes made by him in 1859. The defendant claimed title under two quitclaim deeds, executed and delivered to her by Buck, in December…
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Ejectment, brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex county, and tried to the jury on the general issue before Phelps, T. On the trial the plaintiff claimed title to the demanded premises by virtue of the levy of an execution issued on a judgment obtained against William J. Buck, the defendant’s brother, in the year 1865, on certain promissory notes made by him in 1859. The defendant claimed title under two quitclaim deeds, executed and delivered to her by Buck, in December 1853. The plaintiff claimed, and offered evidence to prove, that at the time of the execution of the deeds, and all the…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
This was an action of disseizin in which both parties claimed title under Wm. J. Buck — the plaintiff by virtue of the levy of an execution and the defendant under deeds from him — and the question in the case was, whether those deeds were operative to convey the title against the claim of the plaintiff, a creditor of the grantor.
On the trial below questions in respect to the admissibility of evidence were made and decided, which will first be considered. ' The claim of the plaintiff was that the deeds to Sarah M. Buck, the defendant, from her brother, were made without any valuable…
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